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This bill directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a grant program to improve the energy resilience, energy democracy, and security of communities, with a focus on environmental justice communities. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Establishing a grant program to provide technical assistance, community outreach, and funding for the development and construction of clean energy microgrids that support critical community infrastructure and serve medical baseline customers. 2. Prioritizing grants for projects that will benefit environmental justice communities, community-owned energy systems, and projects that have the greatest potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, energy cost burdens, and land use impacts. 3. Requiring the use of American-made iron, steel, and manufactured goods in grant-funded projects, with exceptions in certain cases. 4. Ensuring prevailing wages are paid to laborers and mechanics employed in grant-funded construction projects. 5. Requiring grant recipients to employ a certain percentage of local, disadvantaged, and apprentice workers in the construction of clean energy microgrids. 6. Authorizing $1.55 billion in appropriations over 10 years to fund the grant program, with at least 10% of the funding for community-owned energy systems.

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